You suffer a stroke that results in total aphasia—that is, you completely lose the ability to understand and produce language, whether in written, spoken, or signed form. The doctors give you absolutely no hope of recovery. A genie of limited competence appears and offers to grant you full proficiency in one of the following languages. Which do you choose?
Albanian
Arrernte
Azerbaijani
Cherokee
Chukchi
Cree
Georgian
Klingon
Latvian Sign Language
Nepali
Old Church Slavonic
Old English
Pashto
Quechua
Romansh
Sami
Somali
Sumerian
Turkmen
Yoruba
No thanks; I’d rather spend the rest of my life as an uncomprehending, illiterate mute.
Are you afraid to open up your computer and tinker with the guts?
There’s nothing inside a computer I cannot fix. I hope my computer breaks just so I can troubleshoot it and fix it.
I fear nothing that could possibly be inside that thing. If I can fix it myself, great I probably saved myself a hundred bucks or so, and if I fail, it was probably beyond me anyways. Bring it on!
I have no problem with straightforward things that only involve a screwdriver and watching a few YouTube videos at most, like swapping out GPUs and RAM sticks, maybe even re-applying thermal paste, but I don’t understand how to read a motherboard diagram to say, figure out where to plug in a cable.
I’ll open up the case and stare at it, but I’m more or less hoping for God to miracle it fixed at that point.
I will call IT support and follow their instructions. I have little to no idea what they are telling me to do, I’m just doing it so hopefully I can get back to whatever it was I was doing before, soon.
If something is not working correctly I’m immediately calling someone to just fix it. I don’t know how to fix it and I don’t want to know anything about how to fix it, I just need it to work.
Should I have clarified in the ballpark poll that I meant parks you have liked, even if from afar or decades later, vs. ones you have personally been in?